Dr. Naresh Das of Army Research Labs

Thermo-photovoltaic (TPV) cells are at the heart of ARL’s proposed multi-fuel combustion heat sources to electricity compact power generation system. There exist various components of compact power generator system including burner, emitter, filter, TPV cells and back side reflector. In this talk, I will present the overview of TPV operation and describe the operation of TPV cells in details. I will describe the state of the art of TPV technology and briefly summarize the future direction to achieve high efficiency TPV power generator system.

Biography:

Dr. Naresh Das is a physicist working in Compact power team of Energy Science Division. Dr. Das is currently working at the Army research Laboratory (ARL) since the year 2000. At  ARL, he has worked in many areas of semiconductor device technology including semiconductor lasers, Photovoltaic devices, detectors, LEDs and thermo-photovoltaic (TPV) devices. He has published more than 50 journal papers and given more than 60 conference presentations in national and  international conferences. In his present position, he is responsible for improving the TPV cell efficiency using different device designs and processing conditions.

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